{"id":10809,"date":"2018-02-21T06:47:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T11:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=10809"},"modified":"2018-02-21T06:47:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T11:47:13","slug":"us-teenager-jailed-smuggling-tiger-across-mexico-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2018\/02\/21\/us-teenager-jailed-smuggling-tiger-across-mexico-border\/","title":{"rendered":"US teenager jailed for smuggling tiger across Mexico border"},"content":{"rendered":"

A US teenager has been sentenced to six months in prison after he was found guilty of trying to smuggle a Bengal tiger cub across the US-Mexico border.<\/p>\n

The six-week-old cub was found in a box on the floor of the teenager’s car<\/a>\u00a0as he was crossing from Mexico into the US near the city of San Diego.<\/p>\n

His lawyer argued that his client had had “a lapse of judgement” and that he wanted to keep the tiger as a pet.<\/p>\n

But prosecutors said he was running an animal smuggling business.<\/p>\n

They said mobile phone messages sent by the teenager, named as 18-year-old Luis Valencia, showed he was boasting about getting large sums of money for exotic animals such as jaguars and lions.<\/p>\n

The tiger cub, named Moka, was placed in San Diego Zoo’s Safari Park.<\/p>\n

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The cub was handed to San Diego Zoo, where he has been coming on fine<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The smuggling of exotic animals has become a lucrative business in Mexico, where drug traffickers often keep entire menageries on their extensive ranches.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, another tiger cub was intercepted by Mexican police after someone tried to mail him in a plastic crate from the state of Jalisco to Quer\u00e9taro.<\/p>\n

The two-month-old cub, which had been sedated, was found by a sniffer dog looking for contraband.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

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